Spotify’s stock price has been on a promising upswing, with analysts setting ambitious targets as shares edge near $400. The last time SPOT approached this mark was in early 2021, fueled by high-profile content deals, but concerns over profitability and market pressures pulled it down to the $70s in 2022. Under CEO Daniel Ek’s direction, Spotify shifted focus to profitability, cutting unnecessary expenditures. Analysts are optimistic, with targets ranging up to $490 from firms like Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank, driven by projected subscriber growth, podcasting, and ad revenue.
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Mark Zuckerberg Dethroned: Three 22-Year-Old Mercor Founders Become Youngest Self-Made Billionaires
Mercor’s 22-year-old founders have become the world’s youngest self-made billionaires after a $350 million funding round valued the AI recruitment startup at $10 billion, surpassing Mark Zuckerberg’s record. Mercor, a fast-rising recruitment startup powering AI model training for Silicon Valley’s biggest labs, has created the world’s youngest self-made billionaires. Three 22-year-old cofounders, including two Americans of Indian origin, have dethroned Mark Zuckerberg as the world’s youngest sel
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Soho House Acquired for £2 Billion as Ashton Kutcher Joins Board
Private members' club chain Soho House has been snapped up for $2.7bn (£2bn) by a consortium involving Hollywood actor turned investor Ashton Kutcher. The group opened its first club in London in 1995, and now has 46 Soho Houses in Europe, North America and Asia, as well a string of other up-market hospitality businesses. It is widely regarded as being a popular haunt of A-list celebrities, and one of its London venues was reportedly where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had their first date.
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Madonna, Shakira and BTS headline half-time show for FIFA World Cup final
Madonna, Shakira and K-pop megastars BTS will headline a Super Bowl-style half-time show at the World Cup final on July 19th at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, FIFA said Thursday. Coldplay's Chris Martin is curating the show, which is a first for a football World Cup final, but has raised concerns about how long half-time will be. The biggest-ever World Cup, with 48 teams, kicks off on June 11th in the United States, Canada and Mexico. FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced in March last ye
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Far‑Right Livestreamer “Chud the Builder” In Custody After Courthouse Shooting
Far‑right livestreamer “Chud the Builder” is in custody following a shooting outside a Tennessee courthouse that left two people, including himself, injured. Police have identified him as 28‑year‑old Dalton Eatherly, a Clarksville contractor who built an online presence by filming himself provoking strangers, using racial slurs and often flashing a gun on camera. The confrontation unfolded outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville, where an argument between Eatherly and another man
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Stephen Jackson Calls Out George Floyd Joke At Kevin Hart Roast: “It Ain’t Funny”
Stephen Jackson has weighed in on the George Floyd joke made during Netflix’s Roast of Kevin Hart, and he’s making it clear there’s nothing funny about it to the people who actually knew Floyd. The joke came from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who said onstage, “The Black community is so proud of you… right now George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard he can’t breathe,” a line that repeated language directly tied to Floyd’s murder and immediately sparked backlash from Floyd’s family and
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AI Helps Man Recover $400,000 In Bitcoin 11 Years After Changing His Password While High
A Bitcoin holder has gone viral after explaining how an AI assistant helped him unlock roughly $400,000 worth of crypto he’d effectively written off. Posting under the handle “cprkrn,” he said he changed his wallet password one night in college while he was high, forgot it almost immediately, and then spent the next decade firing every brute‑force tool he could find at the problem with no success. The wallet held 5.25 BTC that were worth a few hundred dollars at the time and have grown to a six‑
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